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some say­ings of ר‘משבצונה“ל

For many years I have worked hard, and strug­gled with mas­ter­ing virtuous. Now, in addi­tion, I’m work­ing on becom­ing more virtual.
This is an expres­sion of that effort.
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השיבנו ה‘ אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו
כעוד לא היו
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ומביא גאלה…
לצאצאיהם

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All pho­tographs are by Mark Hurvitz unless they are obvi­ously not.

The pho­tos in the ban­ner at the top (only a shal­low sliver of a much larger photo) are either from our home or our trav­els and are offered for their beauty alone (though a brain-teaser for me: “Where was that?”).

davka flickr

st. paintings

At least three col­ors of painted mes­sages on the pave­ment. By the time there are three col­ors that fit within the photo, none can have any “mean­ing” what remains is the pattern.

davka flickr

3 pavements

Three pave­ments poured next to each other (con­tigu­ous), but not at a prop­erty line.

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why break the middle one?

why do we break the mid­dle matzah?

An eight year old asked me the other day why we break the mid­dle Matzah for the Afikoman.

I searched in a dozen Hag­gadot and other sources, (includ­ing aca­d­e­mic ones, e.g. Bokser’s “Ori­gins of the Seder”) and I can find noth­ing. I am famil­iar with the inter­pre­ta­tion of the three mat­zot as sym­bolic of the Cohanim, Levites and Israel. I also know of an expla­na­tion for why we eat the smaller por­tion. But these tell me noth­ing about why we break the mid­dle Matzah.

Does any­one know of an expla­na­tion and a source?